Alaskan blogger Amanda Coyne accepts job with newly minted Republican Senator Dan Sullivan. Say what?

Courtesy of Pipeline:  

Amanda Coyne accepted a job as a speechwriter and senior adviser to U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, she announced over the weekend on her popular Alaska political blog. 

Coyne, who spent more than a decade reporting in Alaska and co-founded the Alaska Dispatch website, will move to Washington for the new job. 

“I’ll still be in and out of the state, and anything can happen,” Coyne wrote in what she described as a final post. “So it’s not goodbye — something more like au revoir, as Hollis French might say.”

This move has not gone over well with the team for the man who Dan Sullivan, and his corporate masters, defeated for the job of Alaska Senator, Mark Begich:

“This is an unfortunate decision after Sullivan paid Coyne thousands for Internet ads,” wrote Max Croes, a former Begich spokesman. “After the election it’s now clear Sullivan had her resume in his hands while basking in favorable coverage from an ‘independent journalist.'”

And Begich is not alone in feeling a little disgusted about this. Here is what our pal Rep. Les Gara had to say yesterday on Facebook:

Hmm. Finally an answer?..To Amanda Coyne's periodic drive-by attacks on certain Democrats, including Yours Truly, and her almost unfailing fawning over Republican top legislative brass? She's now Policy Adviser for Senator for all Corporations, Dan Sullivan. Because, cough, of what she calls his "honesty" and "integrity" - I guess like when he repeatedly tried to create the misimpression SB 21 would double North Slope oil production and make us rich, when he claimed he had no position on the Pebble Mine, which he granted permit after permit to move forward.

I have to admit that I am feeling a little sick to my stomach as well, since during the Palin drunken brawl brouhaha I drove quite a bit of traffic her way, and introduced hundreds of new visitors to her blog. (It's really not that popular.)

I even let her go on television to talk about the Throwdown at the Hoedown, when the opportunity was first offered to me. (Dammit! I could have been a star.) 

In my opinion the least patriotic thing that real Alaskans can do politically these days is to be associated with Dan Sullivan, who essentially bought that Senate seat with money from the Koch brothers and stole it from a man who has always put Alaskans first.

Just another sad day for Alaska bloggers.

P.S. I wanted to make it clear that it is not the fact that Coyne is secretly a conservative that is upsetting me. Actually I did not know, nor care about her politics when I linked to her during the time that the Palin brawl information was just coming to light. 

My problem is that she is working for Dan Sullivan, which I think is a slap in the face to Alaskans.

If she had decided to work for Lisa Murkowski, or a Republican state senator, it would not have bothered me very much at all.

But not Sullivan. It is not about politics, it is about integrity.